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...In the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana winter came early with a fortnight of cloudless cobalt skies above a fresh dump of snow — the best kind of “bluebird” days on the slopes, in US ski parlance....
...On Thursday, CPIPG noted that it had sold the Crans-Montana resort at a “significant premium” to the €51mn book value it had ascribed to the business at the end of June....
...TikTok had argued that the law restricts the First Amendment rights of the people of Montana by denying them an important channel of communication....
...Last year, Montana’s governor signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill that would prohibit app stores from allowing downloads of TikTok in the state....
...The state of Montana passed a bill last year to ban TikTok, also by forcing its removal from app stores accessed from inside the state....
...This might yet be blocked by the Senate or the courts; when Montana lawmakers tried to ban TikTok last year, there were legal appeals....
...of Montana.”...
...“We are challenging Montana’s unconstitutional TikTok ban to protect our business and the hundreds of thousands of TikTok users in Montana,” a TikTok spokesperson said on Monday....
...Vail Resorts agreed to buy the Crans-Montana ski resort in the Swiss Alps, in a SFr118.5mn ($136mn) deal that will give the Colorado-based group ownership of an iconic European holiday destination....
...Meanwhile, last month, Montana signed a bill into law banning TikTok in the state, which is being challenged in court....
...“The bailouts are going to put a lot of Montana banks and Montana families on the hook for the mismanagement of a [San Francisco] Bay Area Bank,” he said....
...In the US, members of the Democrat and Republican parties have backed a bill that would give the government the power to ban the app, while last week, Montana became the first state to pass legislation to...
...Terry Moore, a representative who sponsored the Montana ESG legislation, said the bill was the first of its kind in the state and would ensure that its pension board considers alternatives to ISS and Glass...
...Finma’s AT1 writedown (FT) TikTok sues Montana over first US state ban (FT) Hargreaves Lansdown sounds alarm over Lindsell Train’s risk management (FT) Debt-laden French supermarket Casino faces fraught...
...Last week I duly practised that tip while voyaging through Utah and Montana, and became fascinated with a story that was prominent in the regional papers — the bitter fight between seven states to agree...
...Before moving to Amazon in 2015, Carney spent five-and-a-half years in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009-14, beginning as director of communications for then-vice president Joe Biden....
...Pan’s ruling was the second win for the DoJ on Monday, after the president of a Montana-based paving and asphalt company pleaded guilty to criminal attempted monopolisation charges, the first such win in...
...Continental is the largest oil producer in the Bakken shale fields in the US states of North Dakota and Montana and in the past year has expanded into Wyoming and the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico...
...Continental is the largest oil producer in the Bakken shale fields in the US states of North Dakota and Montana, and in the Anadarko Basin field in the company’s home state of Oklahoma....
...The companies, both focused on the Bakken oilfield of North Dakota and Montana, said on Monday they would combine in an all-stock deal in response to investor pressure to cut the fat and drive efficiency...
...Such vacation destinations as Sarasota and Key West in Florida along with Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Bozeman, Montana; and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, are also accommodating more flights....
...Women in parts of Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana — where there are few, if any, abortion providers — often had to travel more than 300 miles to reach the nearest abortion facility before Dobbs...
...Average daily car rental prices during the holidays were well above $100 a day in beach destinations such as Hawaii and ski destinations in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming, according to online travel...
...Those who know him describe Greenberg as energetic and “hard-driving”; he is also a keen cyclist, the friend said, both in New York and Montana, where he always packs bear spray for the ride....
...In one case last autumn, a US bitcoin mining group even struck a deal to rescue a closing coal-fired station in Montana. This fossil-fuel fixation leads to a humongous carbon footprint....
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